Juan Antonio Bayona and his film ‘The Snow Society’ have been crowned the brand new winners of the Platinum Awards, after winning six of the seven awards which he opted for. “Sometimes, you have to do things differently to change the rules of the game, because Spain has the right tools to do it,” said the Spanish filmmaker at a gala held this Saturday in Cancun, in which the Spanish industry has prevailed over the Latina both in series and in movies.

And ‘The Snow Society’, from Bayonne, has become a symbol of what can be achieved through collaboration between countries. Also, Bayona has taken advantage of its privileged position on the stage of Gran Tlachco Theater of Riviera Maya to throw an emotional lifeline to the battered Argentine culture: “To be against cinema is to be against your country. Argentina, you are not alone, here we are.”

A country that was very present at the gala, not only for its demands but for its representation of its Honor Award 2024which was awarded to the Argentine actress Cecilia Roth (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1956). In his acceptance speech, Roth called for “resistance” to endure “this fight for the cinema we make”. The actress, muse of Pedro Almodóvar, has received her first award for a lifetime dedicated to cinema, a tribute to her outstanding career in the film industry on both sides of the ocean.

‘20,000 species of bees’, the other big winner

In general, the Latin awards were very Spanish awards, with 17 statuettes out of 23 possible. Although ‘The Snow Society’ has been the great winner, the film ‘20,000 species of bees‘ of Estíbaliz Urresola (Llodio, Álava, 1984) has managed to make the four awards for which it was competing a reality, a prize for which both the director and the producer Valerie Delpierre have been heartily grateful. “Enough of objectifying and let’s change the narrative,” claimed the Basque director, whose film is dedicated to the sexual identity of an eleven-year-old girl who was born in the body of a boy.

Also, Ane Gabarain She won the award for supporting actress for her role as the understanding aunt of Cocó-Lucía (Aitor) and Urresola was best new director and best screenwriter; In addition, she has won the film award for values.

For his part, ‘Robot Dreams‘, the animated film by Pablo Berger has won the Platinum award in its category, and also the award for best original music. In series, ‘The Messiah’, without its creators Los Javis being nominated, was awarded two statuettes: one for best leading actress in a series Lola Duenas (Madrid, 1971) and another, for best supporting actress to Carmen Machi. Besides, José Coronado hHe received the award for best supporting actor for ‘Cerrar los ojos’, by Víctor Erice and Laia Costa the best leading actress for ‘Un amor’, by Isabel Coixet.

Barrabrava, the best series

The Olympus of the series, he reaches it ‘Barrabrava’, the violent version of the underworld that surrounds Argentine soccer fields through the lives of two brothers expelled from the ‘brava brava’ of their favorite club (a soccer fanatic fan), which premiered on Amazon Prime on June 23, with great success in Latin America and a very discreet passage through Spain.

Alfredo Castro, impressive in the role of the murdered leader Salvador Allende in the series ‘The thousand days of Allende’ and Rodrigo Bazaes, the art director of Pablo Larraín’s film ‘The Count’, in which Castro also stars as Pinochet’s despicable vampire slave, has taken away the only award that Bayona has not won of the eight to which he aspired.

The great race of The Snow Society

A resounding career for the Bayonne team with ‘The Snow Society’, which has reached 45 awards After more than a hundred nominations, the last ones were minted this weekend in Xcaret (Riviera Maya) where the public, on the one hand, and the Platino Awards juries, on the other, have contributed with the last eight awards.

‘The Snow Society’ is already one of the most indispensable films in Spanish-language cinematography, a co-production between Spain, Uruguay, Argentina and the US that is going around the world both in movie theaters and through streaming on Netflix, also producer of the film.

The film, based on a real case, recreates the plane crash of a Uruguayan rugby team that crashed in the Andes in 1972 with 45 people on board, of whom only 16 survived, after 72 days of impossible resistance and after sacrificing convictions. personal, many of them, linked to the Catholic religion.